Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-12-30
Industrial Notes.

The Rtna Glass Works are closed and
taking stock. They will not resume until
the New Year.
Sweeney & Son shipped this week bell
and mouth piece to the Irondale furnace at
Independence, W. Va.
The Rtna Iron and Steel Works are of
for n few days, but the office force are
busiiy engaged in taking stock.
The Riverside Pipe Works are enabled to
make better time on the night turn than
by day. on account of the better flow OF
gas.
B. Fisher & Son are so pushed with or
ders that they found time to take the
usual holiday rest only long enough to take
stock.
The Joseph Bell Stove Works are closed
this week to make necessary repairs, anu
put in new hosting engine, and to per
isct several new designs in their patterns.
Business at the Wheeling Pottery has
been more than usually good during the
holiday season. They will close next
week to take stock and make some needed
repairs.
The Findlay Gas Co. recently advanced
the price from Is cents per month TO Oh
c nts per month, and the indignant people
hung one of the trustees in effigy in conse-
quence.
The Standard is well stocked with Or
ders, and is working up to It's tuil capac-
ity, except q few days off for Christmas.
II has not known so strong demand
in its line for this season of the year In
long time.
The I.aBelle is troubled no more for the
want of gas. They did not close down
this week as they expected, but are run
ming full in order to fill some heavy west
ern orders before the advance Is made III
freight that will occur January LIST.
The furnace at the Top mill is off this
week, but the nail department Is running
full. They are making some good ship
ments of muck iron to Pittsburg this
week. A shortage of gas compelled them
to take off one battery of boilers.
At the Belmont the furnace has beer
! running very satisfactorily, and has beer
making 4 No. iron since blown in. The
nail factory is not running this week, but
will resume next Monday. They have
quit gas altogether and gone back to coal
The Enterprise notes that oil was found
in the GAINESVILLE well at depth OF ], 49,
feet, in the Macksburg sand. The oil 1870
a good quality, but not III paying quan'l
| ty. Work was resumed at the vel las'
week, and hopes are entertained for NOR
valuable find.
II is said that mammoth project Is OIL
foot to pipe the oil in the Ohio district u
a central depot, which will probably b'
Lima, owing to the superior shipping In
cilities Of that place. Work will begin OF
the line at onee, and pipes are already
being drawn there.
The hot-iron machines of the Jefferson
nail factory were started mp again last Mon
day. The new blast furnace was not blowl
in till Wednesday. First case Friday morn
ing. Both hail factories shut down Thurs
day evening and will not start up befor
January Sd, possibly not then.
The Belmont Glass Works are shu
down and will remain closed until the la
Dor trouble is settled, this being one of tn
factories affected by the threatened strike
The status of the trouble remains IN
changed, but an early adjustment Of tn
matter is both possible and probable.
The freight rates between Wheeling ANT
Chicago have been raised from Is to l!
cents, and, it is said, will be elevated an
other notch after January l. This Is a sc
we're blow to the manufacturers of this dis
} trict, and will operate 10 almost, if no
quite, shut them out OF the Western mar
ketS
There have been erected in West Vir
ginia, during the year 1887, the following
manufacturing concerns: One car works
two cotton and wooden mills, two blast fur
paces, fouI glass works, thirty-four mine
and quarries, twopipe works, five potteries
eleven railroads, two steel plants, an,
, twenty woodworking establishments.
The Wheeling Hinge 60. exhibits all tn
characteristics and surroundings Of q hum
ming beehive. The din of busy industr
makes music in every room and apart
ment. Their shipments are almost daily
and their orders are pleasantly numerous
They will ship tomorrow three car load
of hinges and wrought goods to Chicago.
A new and extensive axle factory hs
{ been determined on by some Of our mos
monument citizens-men whose name
and financial reputation are guarantee Q
| success, and it will be pushed forward to n
early establishment. 1t is in the hands Q